Touch Newsletter #144


Welcome to the Touch Newsletter #144. Two new tapes from The Tapeworm are now on pre-order exclusively in the TouchShop.

Cristian Vogel’s “’mist Tape” features over 90 minutes of sketches and ideas, recorded directly to a handful of talking book tapes he found abandoned on the street. “This isn’t a mix tape – it’s a ’mist tape.”

UnicaZürn is Stephen Thrower (Coil, Cylobe) and David Knight (Shock Headed Peters). Their hour-long “Omegapavilion” cassette features three improvisations played, recorded and edited by UnicaZürn specifically for this release across one weekend in March 2015. Artwork is by the incomparable Danielle Dax.

Finally, for a limited period we are offering 2 cassettes for the price of 1 on certain titles (see section at end of this email). When you place your order for any 1 available cassette, please state which additional free cassette you want in the comments section. This offer only applies to cassettes which are listed below and in-stock.




TTW#83 | Cristian Vogel “’mist Tape”

Cassette only – limited edition
Illustration – grohs

Track List
A: Part I [47m08s]
B: Part II [47m11s]


“I found some talking books out on the street – someone was throwing them away. They had been in the sun a while. Perfect. I took one home and recorded over it with sketches and ideas. This isn’t a mix tape – it’s a ’mist tape.” – Cristian Vogel, Copenhagen, 27 August 2015.

Cristian Vogel is a long-term innovator in the composition, mixing and performance of electronic sounds. His professional career as an independent creator working in advanced music and technology has established him as an outstanding influence in the fields of composition for stage, club culture and studio. Born in Chile 1972 and raised in the UK, he is now based in Copenhagen.

All music composed and recorded directly to cassette by Cristian Vogel 2014-2015, except for the slamming beat at 3’27” of side one, which is a short clip of SØS Gunver Ryberg mixing one of her tracks in Vogel’s studio – used with kind permission.


Pre-order Cristian Vogel “’mist Tape” in the TouchShop
More information on www.tapeworm.org.uk
cristianvogel.tumblr.com




TTW#84 | UnicaZürn “Omegapavilion”

Cassette only – limited edition
Illustration – Danielle Dax

Track List
A: Extract From Eternal Conumbra
B1: Heliomantra
B2: Phosphor AKS


UnicaZürn is Stephen Thrower and David Knight. Recorded during March 2015 in Battersea, London.

The tracks for the “Omegapavilion” cassette are three improvisations played, recorded and edited by UnicaZürn specifically for this release across one weekend in March 2015. Instrumentation comprised an ARP Solina String Ensemble, EMS Synthi AKS, electric guitar, and two iPads.

Here’s Joe Banks, writing about the group for The Quietus: “UnicaZürn is an ongoing collaboration between David Knight and Stephen Thrower, two musicians with some serious avant rock credentials – Knight was a key member of Shock Headed Peters and songwriting partner to the divine Danielle Dax, while Thrower was with Coil for eight years and is also one half of Cyclobe. The music they make together using a variety of vintage keys and reed instruments is a viscerally organic strain of proto-ambient, strongly influenced by the pre-sequencer Tangerine Dream of “Zeit” and “Atem”. We’re firmly in drone territory here, but a long way away from throwing a few synth loops into GarageBand and hoping for the best.”


Pre-order UnicaZürn “Omegapavilion” in the TouchShop
More information on www.tapeworm.org.uk
www.unicazurn.com




Two-for-one offer on tapes

For a limited period we are offering 2 cassettes for the price of 1 on certain titles. When you place your order for any 1 available cassette, please state which additional free cassette you want in the comments section. This offer only applies to cassettes which are listed below and in-stock.

Black Spirituals “High Vibration Resonance Vol.1” [Cassette]

Elektro Guzzi “Circling Above” [Cassette]

Dale Cornish & Phil Julian “Two Warhol's Worth” [Cassette]

Dale Cornish “Fleshpile Thematic” [Cassette]

Graham Dowdall “Outside Broadcast” [Cassette]

Michael Muennich “Schamprozessionen” [Cassette]

Ray Gallon “Nam June Paik - A Work for Radio” [Cassette]

Hanno Leichtmann “Unfinished Portrait of Youth Today” [Cassette]

The Norman Conquest “Myriad” [Cassette]

Where is This “Infinite Hum” [Cassette]

Cathi Unsworth “Johnny Remember Me” [Cassette]

Zerocrop “On Tape” [Cassette]

Amy Winedeath “Speakeasy” [Cassette]

Guerrilla Audio

Guerrilla Audio is a new series of audio raids by Simon Fisher Turner.

guer·ril·la
ɡəˈrilə/
noun
noun: guerilla
a member of a small independent group taking part in irregular fighting, typically against larger regular forces.

Each audio edit will be posted for 14 days and then removed from the site, although the information about each guerrilla activity will be archived, but without the audio. There will be two postings per month with the first (also featuring Klara Lewis & Rainier Lericolais) on 1st August 2015, so please check in regularly to listen to the latest offering.


Guerrilla Audio
www.simonfisherturner.com




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